“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” George Orwell’s “1984” Our thoughts are being recorded. If you are reading this your intents are being scrutinized like light through a PRISM. If you are sharing this, your intention is an action which can be interpreted by government overlords to mean the Clintonian, “Whatever is, is.” Only recently taking the body part scanners | Read More »

Peter Dow’s “no” to Taliban’s surrender terms. Afpak strategy for victory in war on terror. (YouTube) CBS News: Divisions within Taliban make peace elusive Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made news Wednesday when he said the combat role for U.S. troops in Afghanistan could end next year instead of 2014. On Thursday, he took a step back — insisting U.S. forces will remain combat ready — | Read More »

Welcome Condoleezza Rice (YouTube) This video is suitable to play to an assembly to introduce and to herald the entrance and the taking to the stage of Condoleezza Rice. An American male speaker reads a CV-like list of Condoleezza Rice’s extraordinary professional accomplishments. The speaker says – A true American original, unlike any before her, Condoleezza Rice is revered for her place in our nation’s | Read More »

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts….For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it. –Patrick Henry | Read More »

In the United States of America, companies has lost a great deal of their competitive advantage on the world market largely due to unions demanding outrageous wages, benefices, and power. The unions have gained more and more power from companies that cannot compete with the rest of the world. Unions had a purpose in the United States at one time. Business owners were putting their | Read More »

“They tell us, sir, that we are weak–unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us | Read More »

American Majority Action has just launched its Precinct Project web portal for all things related to what I refer to as “The Neighborhood Precinct Committeeman Strategy.” If you want to get involved where you live in party politics, and help make sure the maximum number of votes are cast for the candidates of your choice, the AMA’s Precinct Project site is a great place to | Read More »

Do any of you redstaters believe the UN will reform itself? Do you believe the US government should involve itself in UN activities and fund UN projects? Do you believe the UN is really a forum where the US should use to navigate foreign policy? Do you find them(the UN) sincere in their intentions to work for a better world? What is your general opinion of them | Read More »

What are Conservative Americans to make of the late-breaking Middle Eastern revolutions, particularly in the name of freedom?

As a press guy, I’ve seen the tech media increasingly critical of the Internet shutdowns in Iran and Egypt. Interestingly, Obama and the Liberals have been pushing implementation of an “Internet kill switch” and “network neutrality”, in the United States, for quite some time.

According to Wikipedia, Tunisia is 98% Muslim, while Egypt weighs in between 80% and 90%. That source also notes that fully 98% of Iran is of the Islamic faith.

I have to scratch my head when boiling it all down, considering my American concept of “freedom”.

I’m an American. I still believe in American exceptionalism, but perhaps now more than ever, I have come to understand that exceptionalism is not a result of merit … but grace. I came to that conclusion after honestly asking myself: Are we smarter than the Romans, who built a republic thousands of years ahead of us; more brilliant than the Germans, from whom we developed our rocket and space technology; better than the Brits, who were one of the largest empires ever built, or more tenacious than the Russians, who stopped the Germans in WW II? I doubt it.

So, what made America exceptional? Certainly, at the time of the revolution it was not our military or financial prowess. Exceptionalism did not rest in the hands of the Continental Congress, who were as feckless as any deliberative body ever assembled. The case could be made that Washington was exceptional, yet he lost battle after battle, almost to the point of mutiny among his men and top generals.

What, then, was that spark that set this nation apart from all others on earth? Sure, we have an abundance of natural resources: land, warm water ports, and so much more; still, I believe, to accurately define exceptionalism, one must look to the words of the Declaration of independence.

(I dropped the indefinite article on purpose, and meant the “A” to be a double-case “A”. A big damn “A”.) A law student takes his date, a med student, to Ruby Tuesday’s for dinner. In the course of conversation, while being served, the young med student comments that she had also waited tables as an under-grad, mentioning what a tough job it was. Good meal, | Read More »

OK as every general will tell you, poorly defended supply lines are a problem in any war. House subcommittee on National Security and Foreign affairs chairman, Rep. John F. Tierney, D-Mass – YouTube- U.S. funds our enemy Taliban’s Afghan war U.S. Tax Dollars Fueling Afghan Insurgency House Investigation: Private Contractors Paying Warlords, Criminals to Get Supplies to U.S. and NATO Bases Lara Logan reports for | Read More »

They know our system. They know our ways. They know our society and its segments and its sub-parts and its cliques and they know our incessantly repeated jump to conclusions mania and they know our laws and they know our hot topics. And those hot topics were just played in Times Square. The guy was a dude. He became a citizen. He lost his home | Read More »

http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/illegal-immigration-undermines-american-values/ Walter Rodgers has a really good article in the Christian Science Monitor about illegal immigration from Latin America. There is nothing much I can add to this. I recommend you click the link and read this one yourself. He starts the piece with an arresting anecdote: Walking the sandy beachfront in this ultra-affluent city, I chanced upon two Hispanic men rummaging through the trash. Startled | Read More »